Robinhood spokeswoman Jacqueline Ortiz Ramsay said: We look forward to engaging with the SEC as they consider potential rules in these areas. As a number of SEC regulations were approved over 10 years ago, predating the huge influence of social media, the impending change will come as a huge task for the regulators. It must…
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ESMA’s statement is part of investor protection objective to safeguard retail investors, whose participation is key to the development of the Capital Markets Union. ESMA stated: ESMA urges retail investors to be careful when taking investment decisions based exclusively on information from social media and other unregulated online platforms, if they cannot verify the reliability…
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GameStop (GME – NYSE) is available to trade on the SquaredFinancial MT5 platform as a single stock CFD. Traders who have accounts can access it and new investors can sign-up, and subject to the normal identification and funding checks, can also gain access. Al Kurdi added: The new strength shown by individual investors is very…
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SILVER Silver is not GameStop. That is the first lesson of the last few trading hours. After successfully pushing up Dogecoin and GameStop, Reddit investors (and probably not only them) tried to replicate this success by targeting silver. But this is a much bigger whale, with a huge number of players involved. Moreover, silver is…
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Fear, however, is pushing many of the traders who have shorts on silver to start covering their positions. Sellers of the physical metal are also rushing to cover their short positions, to avoid finding themselves at a loss in the face of the startling increases. We must also stress, however, that a successful attack on…
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Germany’s Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) filed criminal complaint on Thusrday against one of its employees for suspected insider trading in payments company Wirecard. BaFin said that the employee of the securities supervision department sold structured products based on Wirecard on 17 June 2020. The date is one day before Wirecard’s auditor EY found that 1.9…
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Robinhood stated on Thrusday: We made a tough decision today to temporarily limit buying for certain securities. As a brokerage firm, we have many financial requirements, including SEC net capital obligations and clearing house deposits. Some of these requirements fluctuate based on volatility in the markets and can be substantial in the current environment. Robinhood…
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